Scrapinghub publishes apt-gettable packages which are generally fresher than
those in Ubuntu, and more stable too since they’re continuously built from
Github repo (master & stable branches) and so they contain the latest bug
fixes.

To use the packages, just add the following line to your
/etc/apt/sources.list, and then run aptitudeupdate and aptitudeinstallscrapy-0.13:

deb http://archive.scrapy.org/ubuntu DISTRO main

Replacing DISTRO with the name of your Ubuntu release, which you can get
with command: